Tag: Taxes
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Only a progressive could bad-mouth a tax cut!
While our school board rides the gravy train! How surprised is anyone that the part-time Madison school board wants to nearly double its pay to $15,000 (from $8,000) AND claim generous health and dental insurance worth between $82,000 and $220,000? After hitting up us taxpayers for an extra $100 million for operations and another $500…
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Dane County has highest property taxes in state
but defunds police and raises indebtedness! Don’t follow the Dane County Board as closely as once did. But we think Jeff Wiegand, who represents the Marshall and rural Sun Prairie WI area, is a reliable watchdog. As the only conservative in a legislative body numbering 37, his voice should be heard. → A welcome October…
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Time to PANIC!
Run for your lives! Save yourselves! Now Chik-fil-A is out of sauce! We’ve always wanted to write a headline like that in our newspaper print days. Break off in mid-sentence and leave a lot of unfinished white space. Despair is in order, it says here, thanks to the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris presidency. If it wasn’t for…
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Will Illinois Democrats hide out in Beloit?
Since 2010, Illinois has lost a net 650,000 residents to other states The beauty of our federal system of government is that if its citizens are out-voted at the polling place they may vote with their feet. The early returns are in and Illinois is losing and Wisconsin is winning at its expense. In fiscal…
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Donald Trump acts presidential
President Trump signed the tax cut bill into law this morning from his desk in the Oval Office so that it kicks in next year. He was most gracious, even to the hastily assembled news media, in a very informal signing ceremony bereft of other notable personages. This was a kinder and gentler Donald Trump…
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Please help a liberal; raise their taxes
Not one Democrat voted for lower taxes or employee bonuses! The indentured servants at the Stately Manor gathered in front of the Philco to watch democracy in action Tuesday and Wednesday. First the House of Reps and then the U.S. Senate debating the epochal tax bill. They were tuned to C-Span — straight-on coverage with no…